>Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?
Why didn't tolkien make his books more good like ASOIAF?
Those are the dull listless eyes of a haggard masturbator.
Nathan Rivera
He answers his own question. Aragon was a good king therefore he had low taxes, a standing army, prepared for feats and famine, and genocided every last orc baby.
Samuel Butler
when did the nofap meme start on this site
Asher Moore
Looks like taxposting's back on the menu, boys
Jose Watson
he's just justifying how he's different from tolkien, not negatively judging tolkien. He wanted to take the fantasy themes out of the realm of mythology with his stupid fucking books.
Zachary Butler
Based and genocidepilled.
May I had that at least Tolkien wrote the end of his story?
Logan Rivera
Tolkien is to creative literary genius what Martin is to hack pulp idiocy. They both so far surpass anyone else in their field that they will be remembered 1,000 years from now as a kind of yin and yang of fantasy, a Manichaen duality of speculative letters. For every sublime, luminous beauty that Tolkien has gifted the world, Martin has cursed us with a tedious, banal ugliness. It is unfair to compare the two directly on any one point, because Martin is in every way the anti-Tolkien, patently sterile, parasitical, and inferior, but so much so that he becomes a monument in his own right, and counterbalances Tolkien. Could one exist without the other? Tolkien obviously could. But it is only by the contrast that Martin offers that we can truly appreciate the full depths and heights of Tolkien. Our understanding of Tolkien would be incomplete if Martin had never set pen to page. It is through only the abject failure and futility of Martin that we can approach an apprehension of the true scope and scale of Tolkien's hitherto inconceivable greatness. Perhaps this is what Tolkien had in mind when he wrote about the Music of the Ainur. If Tolkien is a subcreator in the image of Eru, truly Martin is like unto Melkor. It is only reflected in the awfulness of the one that we can fully see the goodness of the other.
Austin Martinez
>Tolkien doesn’t ask the question Because the story is fucking over by the time Aragorn's rule starts you fat fucking pseud I hate Americans so fucking much.
Carter Reyes
>detail is good
Jayden Phillips
Shall he at least set his lands in order?
Easton Nelson
When everyone starting rejecting modernity and consumerism.
Henry Wood
Shitting is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the shit was a solid load, it would pass. We look at real pathology and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn had perfect bowel movement every twenty four hours, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What if the more Aragorn drank the more he shat? Did he maintain a standing squat? What did he do in times of gastrointestinal flood and constipation? And what about all these nuggets? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the nuggets aren’t gone – they’re in the shit-piles. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic poop-scooping and clean them up? Even the little baby nuggets, in their little deer droppings?
Caleb James
>Sauron has regained much of his former liquidity. He cannot yet take corporate form, but his portfolio has lost none of its potency.
>Concealed within his corner office, the CEO of Mordor sees all. His audits pierce wholly-owned subsidiaries, numbered Swiss accounts, and... tax havens. You know of what I speak, Gandalf: a great Accountant, merciless, clothed in a six-button single-breasted chalk-striped suit by Ralph Lauren, a silk tie (also by Ralph Lauren), a cotton broadcloth shirt by Joseph Abboud and shoes from Brooks Brothers.
>He is gathering all evidence to him. Very soon he will summon an army of lawyers great enough to file suit against Middle Earth™. Against the power of Mordor there can be no victory. We must merge with them, Gandalf. We must merge with Sauron.
>What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? Funny because I doubt GRRM talks about it on his books. I can't remember a chapter where he discussed the tax policy or the logist plan for the armies of each lord (or whatever).
I regret ever picking up ASOIAF almost a decade ago.
Owen Evans
>Mohammed - Insult against British, French, and Germans triggered by the swede erasure
Kayden Taylor
That's why Crusader Kings 2 exists, you fucking sperg.
Evan Perry
it's crazy that there are people who browse this website and don't actually understand the intention of the vernacular. >my feeling when >it is a complaint against nosy parents >reference to an ancient egyption god of chaos
Gabriel Clark
I think it's bait. There's no way someone who actually doesn't know what a waifu is would know what "engrish" is.
Anthony Bennett
Ikr? It's "RETURN of the King" not "RULE of the King". Fucking Amerifarts
Levi Lopez
>Another tolkien tribe vs martin tribe thread You faggots are embarrassing.
Yeah, and which policies did Aragorn pursue in regards women's rights and PoC?? But of course Tolkien ignores those issues! Just like his fanbase fapping to elves in their mother's basements.
Gabriel Thomas
> fapping to elves Peasant. Anything less than a Maia is just settling for less.
Justin Lewis
Martin, George. Dislike him. Writer of corncobby chronicles. To consider them masterpieces is an absurd delusion. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.
Joshua Bailey
South Park was unironically spot on with Martin.
Samuel Jackson
>if the king is a good man, the kingdom prospers. >i disagree with that >proceeds to write about bad rulers who ruin their kingdoms, and good rulers that make their kingdoms prosper what did he mean by this?
Carter Barnes
As far as I’m aware orcs don’t have the means to reproduce so eventually they’d die out with or without help.
Lincoln Jenkins
they can reproduce, according to Tolkien himself. he just didn't feel it necessary to talk about orc wives and orc children, much to the chagrin of liberals.
James Lewis
a song of ice and fire is the fantasy series equivalent of the part in the iliad where they list all the ships
Atheism (or more like postmodern deconstructionism but I didn't want to come off as a pseud) is to Martin what Christianity is to Tolkien. Martin can't finish his books because there is no future in his philosophy, it's not a way of thinking that promotes life.
Owen Reyes
Has there been a greater fraud in the last 30 years than this fat fuck?
>Anything less than a ____ is just settling for less
You don't say?
Adam Rivera
Fantastic write-up.
Robert Sanchez
>Everyone be nice >"I'm not nice and I don't want to, also I'm white and have black slaves" >k lol draugon burnerino everythingo >Good job kiddo can I be your personal dwarf and also a KING?
Dare I say he's based?
Lucas Watson
>internal tech theory
Josiah Thompson
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